Fresh blood and brains splattered everywhere, leaving the guests dumbfounded and staring blankly.
Mei Shiyun's eyes trembled. She stared blankly at Lin Hao, finally seeing him clearly in her final moments...
He had changed.
He was no longer the Lin Hao who held her like a precious treasure in his palms and cherished her with meticulous care.
Tears streamed down her blood-stained face, blending and blurring together.
The moment Mei Shiyun collapsed to the ground, Lin Hao finally sighed. "Ah, finally some quiet."
Seeing the Young Master actually kill the woman he loved, Jiuying was utterly baffled.
For all these years, Jiuying had seen most clearly how much the Young Master had sacrificed for Mei Shiyun behind the scenes.
What on earth had the Young Master been through?
In just a single night, earth-shaking changes had occurred.
Jiuying couldn't figure it out.
So he simply stopped trying.
Raising his head once more, he locked his gaze onto Chimei, who visibly startled and retreated backward through the void.
"So even Chimei knows what fear is..."
Jiuying raised his eyes calmly.
"You!"
"Just what kind of divine being are you!"
Chimei looked at him with vigilance, continuing to back away.
"Who I am is not something you are qualified to know."
As one of the most secretive "Shadow" members of the Upper Realm Lin Family, Jiuying was originally a ferocious beast that wreaked havoc in the Upper Realm.
Later, he was subdued by the ancestor of the Lin Family.
Having cultivated the secret arts and martial techniques of the Lin Family, his strength had reached the pinnacle.
Even placed in the Upper Realm, he was an absolute expert.
Therefore, he didn't even take someone of Chimei's strength seriously at all.
Jiuying slowly raised his hand and formed a hand seal.
Of the three floating small orbs behind him, one instantly turned fiery red.
"God of Fire Art."
"Karmic Fire! Annihilation Strike!"
Rumble!
The dark-clouded sky suddenly filled with a vast expanse of fiery light, accompanied by the rumbling of thunder.
As Chimei looked up in astonishment.
A beam of fire suddenly descended from the sky!
In an instant, it formed a pillar of fire connecting heaven and earth, completely engulfing Chimei, who had been too slow to escape.
"Ahhhhhhh!"
Within the shocking pillar of fire, Chimei's miserable screams echoed.
As his aura grew increasingly feeble and gradually dissipated, the screams stopped along with it.
Only this pillar of fire remained, illuminating the Northern Wasteland.
Seeing this, everyone present turned pale with shock, left completely speechless.
...
When the pillar of fire vanished, the dark clouds in the sky were likewise driven away, restoring the clear skies for ten thousand miles.
"That demonic monster was killed just like that?"
Ye Ling widened her eyes in shock and disbelief.
Jiuying's terror had already far exceeded the scope of her understanding.
Lin Hao gave a faint glance toward the southwestern horizon and said, "Go and chop off the heads of Tang Chen and Mei Shishi."
"Yes, Young Master."
Jiuying also understood that the Young Master would never let those two off.
Yet just as he intended to move out and pursue them, a strange power suddenly surged from beneath Lin Hao's feet, causing Jiuying's already-stepping foot to halt abruptly.
"Young Master?!"
Seeing that viscous liquid, resembling black blood, had actually enveloped Lin Hao, Jiuying was struck with terror and threw a palm strike straight at it.
However, the giant black blood sphere remained completely immovable.
The aura of extreme evil yet peerless sanctity radiating from it was something that even Jiuying deeply dreaded.
"What is that!"
"What's wrong with Senior Brother!"
Ye Ling grabbed her father's hand and cried out frantically.
Ye Liuyun was similarly at a loss.
"Young Master!"
"Young Master, can you hear me!"
Jiuying was frantic with anxiety on the outside, yet with the Young Master trapped inside, he dared not risk going all out to try and smash this thing open.
Why would such a situation suddenly occur?
What on earth was this black liquid?
...
In a mysterious world enveloped by chaos, Lin Hao stood in extreme bewilderment on the silver-white plaza, staring at a pitch-black, heaven-reaching giant gate before him with his jaw dropped in shock.
A door, a cauldron, and a watchdog dozing on the ground.
Apart from these, there was only a boundless sea of stars as far as the eye could see, the Dao rhythms and natural laws within the starlight reflecting off one another in a most breathtaking display.
As for the door before him, it was as majestic as Mount Tai, and the strange sights upon it transcended understanding: at times the alternation of sun and moon, at times a riotous dance of a myriad demons, and at times the shifting of the four seasons alongside wondrous sights of farming, herding, fishing, and hunting, as if encompassing Myriad Phenomena.
Changing infinitely...
"What is this place?"
"My injuries seem to have healed entirely."
Lin Hao gazed in shock at this bizarre and unpredictable scene, unable to suppress his exclamation.
Even had he consumed a Floating Immortal Fruit Pill, it would have been impossible for his injuries to heal in such a short amount of time.
Just as Lin Hao found himself at a complete loss, the black dog lying on the ground suddenly opened its eyes and spoke: "Lin Hao, congratulations on becoming the one hundredth Dao-Seeker of the Shura God Clan."
Shura God Clan?
Dao-Seeker???
Lin Hao froze.
He was a Dao-Seeker of the Rakshasa God Clan, and his Path-Seeker journey was supposed to involve evading the pursuit of the Shura God Clan's Dao-Seekers!
How had he suddenly become a Dao-Seeker of the Shura God Clan instead?!
The old black dog before him that could speak human language clearly had some connection to the Shura God Clan.
The Shura God Clan was the most powerful and most dangerous of the eight primordial God Clans.
Of this, Lin Hao was already well aware.
With a dark expression, he immediately said, "I have no desire to be any Shura God Clan Dao-Seeker. You, let me go back."
"That won't do." The black dog raised a front paw, placed it in front of its mouth to yawn, and then stood up from the ground, shaking the fur on its body.
The dog's aura was unfathomably deep.
Lin Hao immediately gripped his Dao-Seeker sword tightly, took a few steps back, and secretly channeled the spiritual energy within his body, infusing it into the sword.
Charging up his power in advance.
Ready at any moment to unleash the Green Lotus Sword Art.
The black dog glanced sideways at the wooden sword in his hand, its pitch-black eyes displaying a distinctly human-like look of disdain: "The Dao-Seeker sword of the Rakshasa God Clan."
It recognized this wooden sword!
Lin Hao was struck dumb with horror.
It seemed he was in for a narrow escape...
"Do not attempt to fight this Emperor; your current strength is still far from worthy of notice." The black dog paced back and forth across the silver-white plaza.
As if stretching its muscles.
During this time, Lin Hao was also secretly driving his spiritual energy, continuing to pour it into the Dao-Seeker sword. He was certainly not going to easily believe its dog words!
After walking a circle, the black dog suddenly stopped before the black cauldron.
It tapped the cauldron wall twice with its tail and said, "The Shura God Clan's Path-Seeker journey is very simple: hunt down other Dao-Seekers and throw their corpses into this Dao-Refining Cauldron."
"As time passes, the blood inside the cauldron will gradually be refined away."
"When the Dao-Refining Cauldron runs completely dry, you will sacrifice your own life."
Lin Hao: "..."
The black dog spoke with such seriousness—could it be that I really am a Dao-Seeker of the Shura God Clan?
Yet my father is a member of the Lin Family, bearing the Rakshasa bloodline.
That Shura bloodline...
Could it be the heritage passed down from my mother?!
Lin Hao forcefully suppressed the shock in his heart, slowly approached the Dao-Refining Cauldron, and peered inside to see only a tiny residual amount of blood pooled at the very bottom.
"As you can see, you must now kill another Dao-Seeker within a year and throw them in."
"Otherwise, a year from now, your body and soul will be utterly destroyed!"